I’d love to see it live once.
GSW is in the WCF. And IDGAF. Edmonton made their way to the Campbell Conference Finals. Carolina got a step closer to the Wales Conference Finals. Te hockey has been great so far. Aside from the Lightning-Panthers series, anyway. The French Open is clipping along. Monaco practice starts today. And the UCL Final is tomorrow. Should be a good weekend for some Euro action. And that’s sports.
Questions should be mounting. And a legit criminal investigation should be launched for anybody who stands in the way of evidence collection. Because this is starting to look like it was the biggest law enforcement failure in some time. And there’s absolutely gonna be an attempt at a cover-up. Hell, not just failure to act, but they were detaining people who tried to go in and save kids on their own. That’s beyond cowardice, that’s getting into evil territory.
Wait, they were still keeping people out? Lol, the best part is the fact that this retarded policy will return about 15 minutes after the first planeload of tourists show up and a handful of them inevitably infect the entire country over again. You know why? Because that’s how this thing works literally everywhere.
You’ll get no justice from the Feds, gals.
Ooooooooooooooooooooof course not. Why would we expect charges? These cocksuckers are above the law.
Well that was a bit of an overreaction. I have no witty quip here. Aside from acknowledging that everybody involved lost their head to a certain degree.
The greatest love of all.
Sure. Sure. We get it. Oh, and crack too. Let’s not forget the crack, Bobby.
Sometimes I want to love the guy. And other times I don’t. For a gazillionaire, he sure is all over the place. And that’s refreshing seeing as the rest of them come across as globalist dickwads.
Ah, Illinois. Never change. You’re just too damn entertaining.
Well this is a shock. Sounds to me like they never really knew what the fuck they were doing, aside from collecting startup cash. Or what I like to call “the Silicon Valley model”.
This retarded shitshow is almost over. Thank Fuck!
RIP In Peace, Andy Fletcher. You were a good one. And here’s another for you. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this fantastic long weekend. And remember the soldiers who died so we can be mostly free.
whaddup doh’
Short cans and fury! How’s about you?
Happy Tornadoversary, homey! ??️?️?️?️?️?️?️?️?️?️?️?️?️?️
You left out the unscathed houses: ??
Fortunately, those were his and mine.
Are you tripled vaxxed? Do you only want to tour with a group? Are you OK with being forbidden from leaving the group? Did you like your guided tour of North Korea?
If so come on and visit!
I am more interesting whose package they will be touring…
Are you OK with being forbidden from leaving the group?
/my attempt at writing Nipponesebureacrat-go
Btw, did you see the pictures of first US “tourist” group?
Read a headline about it being Hawaiian.
Nothing else. Were they of Japanese descent?
Possibly…
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/05/319e72619a1c-7-from-us-land-in-japan-for-1st-test-tours-before-tourism-reopening.html
Typical tourist luggage as well…
Complete with fanny packs.
In a sense, that wasn’t really a lie at all.
And that’s sports.
But is it?
Well, he *did* mention the Great and Boring Monaco Car Parade coming this weekend. What else matters? 😉
My plan for that race to be good again is to have the teams build karts for that track. Or cars that always have DRS open and are built to a 2/3 scale of the current cars.
Either of those would work.
That’d work. The whole point as far as I can tell is so they can schmooze with the Rich and Famous (like I expect Vegas to be). Maybe do qualifying in the real cars so the yacht parties still get the “Cool! Whizzing car!” factor, then switch to the karts for the real race, order from the qualifying.
Or select a driver at random to intentionally crash in the hairpin and knock out half the field in the first few laps, freeing up enough space for the rest of them to race. 😉
Because this is starting to look like it was the biggest law enforcement failure in some time.
The cops got home safely. That’s what matters.
The very small positive development in this horror show is that the narrative is being changed despite the best efforts of the the usual “sources” of information. Politicians and the media wanted to talk gun control, but nobody is listening now that they see how… incompetent? evil? worthless? our cops are.
Comments at the cop worshipping WSJ were not favorable to either the state or law enforcement.
There were a smattering of gun control comments, but they were mostly drowned out by the failure of the state.
I was surprised.
I am no fan of police because too many people attracted to that profession seem to be poorly suited for the power & responsibility that comes with the job that requires one to remain humble, but I feel compelled to point out that cops are only as effective as the political class and the civilians are willing to allow them to be. That having been said, I still recall the very old saying that cops are minutes away when seconds count….
I’ll grant that — and I’ll state that I’m nowhere near the “ACAB” type viewpoint. But given post-Columbine known procedures, the whole “12 minutes of pot shots *outside* the school after crashing the truck” and BASIC FUCKING HUMAN DECENCY to not detain parents frantic to help save their kids when you’ve apparently got your thumb up your butt for an hour, what I want is to find out just who in the hell set this as policy or training or issued guidance in this case and for their (methaphorical) head to roll first. Then follow up with training or firings if need be. If the rank and file there don’t understand that it is part of the job to risk not going home so the civilians (especially the innocent) can, then they need to find other work, pronto. This “I just want you to RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!” and write tickets without actually tackling the hazards of the job that the profession gets our respect for can not continue. Post-COVID, post-BLM — police are walking very close to a minefield as a profession — the ardent left already hated them. Most of the rest of the folks wanted simple reforms and accountability. Add in standing back in riots, acting like the goddamn SS in Australia (et alia) and neglecting to do their jobs in scenarios like this — and they’re going to lose what support they have left. And for good reason — if they won’t do their jobs, someone will have to — and then why the hell would we pay their lazy asses?
I should probably take a morning walk and try not to rage at the sky so I don’t wake the neighbors. Getting very ranty in here.
“I’ll grant that — and I’ll state that I’m nowhere near the “ACAB” type viewpoint. But given post-Columbine known procedures, the whole “12 minutes of pot shots *outside* the school after crashing the truck” and BASIC FUCKING HUMAN DECENCY to not detain parents frantic to help save their kids when you’ve apparently got your thumb up your butt for an hour,”
Take out the emotional aspect of this horrific incident and the fact these were kids, and that as a parent you would do anything and everything to protect your kids, and come at this from a pure logical stance. What do you think the stories would look like today if the cops had let the parents go in and the parents accidentally shot one of the kids or teachers? Or if the fucking evil shit had killed said parent or parents? What do you think the story would be if the parents had gotten 100% lucky and nothing bad had happened if they had gone in? None of these would have reflected well on anyone involved (especially the last scenario on the police).
I feel everyone still hammering on the police not letting parents act is the wrong focus as it stresses the emotional aspect of this tragedy. The thing to take away is that depending on the law to solve this sort of problems comes with a very high price. A price that applies to not depending on the law as well. My takeaway from this horrific event isn’t that the cops or parents failed, or that we need to do away with firearms ownership, or that we need to arm everyone and their grandma, but that America has a serious problem with broken individuals with severe mental disorders that are no longer content to just commit suicide, but desperately want their 15 mins of fame and decide to kill others on their way out. And I wonder if we landed here because of our notion and move to destigmatize mental disorders which has the consequence that people that are dangerous to more than themselves now slip through the cracks (and potentially end up doing shit like this).
I guess I really have neither answers nor solutions, but I see all the discussions today being about the wrong thing.
Agreed. We absolutely have a cultural problem and that’s where the focus should be, but it ain’t.
Well, the parents would need to go in and risk accidentally shooting someone, etc., if the cops had gone in immediately. The cops created the crowd control problem in the first place.
^This. The cops fucked up bad. They absolutely failed. They should gone in immediately to engage the shooter. Hardstop.
Regardless of what happened inside the school, tasing parents, handcuffing parents, and forming a wall towards unarmed parents with their hands on the rifles was wrong. This is not the role of law enforcement. It’s something you see in banana republics where police act as agents of the state instead of protectors of the peace.
Well said. But this time I am seeing more people writing and talking about this being a result of a broken society.
And I am seeing the usual suspects immediately attack these people for pointing out that the “victimhood makes you special”, “everyone gets a participation trophy”, and “self esteem before you ever do anything to earn it is not wrong” combined with the cesspool of social media, has left us with a parade of evil fucks that instead of just taking their own lives, now want an audience and other victims as their cry for attention.
The cops have been compartmentalized into their own zone. The last few years have created an us vs them attitude even worse than it was before. When you see six cops arresting a speeder, something ain’t right.
They were just organizing a doughnut run, it’s what they do. That and “Welfare Checks”. We recently had 2 deputies show up to check on the Me and the Mrs. We had gotten new phones and I’d emailed the new numbers out but the 2-3 people concerned don’t read my rants and contacted the local authorities. It actually was kind of funny, I was eating supper when they arrived, they wanted to visually see the Mrs but she was taking a nap on the couch. Anyway, while they were inside talking the landline rang, the concerned kiddos had finally figured out the new numbers.
No dogs or children were killed and the LEOs went home safely after another harrowing experience.
Gah!
The media is trying to run an old script on new hardware. They would be better off ignoring these events but they can’t help themselves.
I’m a peaceable Man but I would be happy if someone other than me took Joy Reid out behind the woodshed and shut her up forever.
After the past couple years the gun control debate is effectively over.
Biden trying to out-POS the cops and drive his approval rating even lower, I guess
Heckuva job, Lou.
Shades of George W. Bush and “heckuva job”
Don’t say “Brownie”. That’s racist!
Cops who restrained a felon who was in the process of overdosing on fentanyl = hate crime / life in prison
Cops who restrained parents while their kids were being slaughtered in a school = heroes
Now you’re getting it!
They were just using the proven strategy of waiting for the murderous lunatic to run out of ammo.
He really can’t tell which way the wind is blowing can he?
I didn’t have a very high opinion of the police before but holy shit. This is despairingly bad.
The wait and see attitude I had yesterday about the cops reaction from yesterday is gone. It is clear they got scared at some point and decided to wait for someone else to take the risks once the shooing started and a few of their own got hit.
i don’t know. Stuff has come out this morning that makes them look a little better. Fox news claims they chased him in, were both shot themselves, and couldn’t fire into a locked room so called for backup.
Could be bullshit but I’ll still wait and see.
I wonder how many kids bled out while the cops were outside handcuffing parents.
Wow. Utter incompetence. I mean, good on him for going in right away, but why the hell would you have kids yell out? Just try to sneak in and shoot the motherfucker.
And there’s absolutely gonna be an attempt at a cover-up.
Supposedly 18 minutes of police radio recordings, starting at the beginning of the shooting, have already gone missing.
It was just an innocent equipment malfunction. Why come you hates on cops?
That’s what happens when you use hard drives surplused from the IRS, after all.
And then there’s this:
https://twitter.com/tom_winter/status/1529524085759385600?s=21&t=6z85w4gyz_WFCAmxQLNTrA
That’s the first step in backpedaling all the way to “well sure some of the kids were shot by cops. But it was a dynamic situation.”
Yep.
Yikes.
Wait, what? I thought everything was backed up on the cloud these days!
Fuck that shit….
And as you well know nothing is ever really deleted from a hard drive until it’s overwritten, and supposedly even then the information can be recovered by forensics firms.
On Anthony Wiener’s personal “Carlos Danger” PC?
Conveniently covering the 12 minutes he sat outside taking potshots and finally climbing the fence.
What an odd coincidence.
My tin foil hat side is starting to think this was a false flag both to raise gun control before the election to fire up their base, and to kill off those of us COVID didn’t already get when our heads explode / blood pressure goes through the roof hearing about how they handled it.
Given the likelihood between qualified immunity and other factors that the findings will be Procedures Were Followed and No Duty of Care and all — I’ll just console myself with my faith in the afterlife and that justice will be done by the Lord if not by us. That verse about “better a millstone around his neck and thrown into the ocean” is coming to mind about now.
If you’re running a false flag where the cops stand around while a bunch of kids get killed, then reach the “procedures were followed” and “no duty of care”, wouldn’t you do it in a bigger municipality? Doing so in a small rural Texas town makes no sense. The department is too small and everybody knows each other.
If that’s the results of the findings, btw, there will either be a mass exodus of the entire PD to “parts unknown” or there will be some disappearances and holes dug in the desert soon after.
Well, the Buffalo shooter was apparently in regular contact with a federal agent in a chatroom
Authorities investigating if retired federal agent knew of Buffalo mass shooting plans in advance
I can understand that Border Patrol responded – but US Marshalls? Out of where – San Antonio? And why?
My tin foil hat side is starting to think this was a false flag
Ruh-Roh! The families of Uvalde are going to sue Glibs for emotional distress now.
The radio chatter about Sandy Hook didn’t make much sense either.
Radio enthusiasts will have it. Every town has a few.
Twitter is claiming that the software used to upload the feed only attempts to handshake every 15 minutes or so.
Here is a link to a thread discussing it. She’s a national-level reporter. We’ll see what eventually comes out.
Coverup mode, ACTIVATED!
Isn’t she that chick who enjoys “making wypipo cry?” Or is that Molly Jeong?
I thought it was Ken Jeong.
Turns out they’re both trash-tier journos very popular with the bluecheck crowd.
Yes, pretty sure that’s her.
Thanks for that.
How Nixonian.
Rose Mary Woods smiles.
Musk sure is an interesting person, and I love some of the shit he does, but sometimes he pisses me off. See, for example, his comments on guns.
My compromise bill:
1. Repeal the NFA.
2. Strict background checks required for fully semiautomatic military-style deathmachine weapons of war. Two of them required if it has the thing that goes up.
3. People denied purchase under provision 2 are also denied the right to vote.
Well, I don’t endorse items 2 or 3. There’s no justification for placing conditions on the exercise of a basic human right.
But, if we had to accept (2), then:
4. All documentation generated during the background checks and sale (other than that the background check was performed and passed) to be destroyed immediately on completion of the check, if passed.
5. Strict limitations on the time allowed for the background check to be completed (hours, not days, weeks, or months)
6. No requirements for any third-party interviews, references, etc. for the background check. Simple search of criminal records only.
Otherwise, your item 1 is moot, because the rest of it just basically reinstates the NFA.
The more I think about it, just delete everything from your proposal except Item 1.
The idea of linking 2 and 3 was to “compromise” while opening things up for disproportionate effect/ma sacred demokracee lawsuits.
Though I do unironically believe if you can’t be trusted to implement your own violence, you should be trusted to outsource it to other people.
I learned to compromise from the left – ie, a compromise is when I get everything I want and you get nothing.
^^^THIS^^^
It’s like democracy is when they get what they want, and when they don’t it is fascism…
We already have 2 – the background checks. If authorities are empowered to strip a citizen of a Constitutional Right, stripping the same person of a right not defined in the Constitution (voting) should be easy.
Which only existed as a federal requirement since the Brady Hill under Clinton. They’re a very recent addition, not something passed under Jefferson yet the Republicans accept and defend background checks as common sense legislation.
The 1968 law made it illegal to sell to prohibited persons, and the 1993 law made those background checks part of a centralized system.
The agenda is to let government entities find a means to create a legal firearms ownership records system (today what they have is highly illegal, and if people learned about it it would justify those of us saying we need the 2A to protect us from our own government). That has been the first requirement in the plan to eventually confiscate all the guns. If they have a legal system of record, they can invent a legal reason to confiscate. Without tat, when the confiscations start, there would be a lot mor resistance – if you know what I mean.
My Compromise bill:
1. Repeal of the NFA and all subsequent Federal firearms legislation.
2. Make it a felony to impose a tax, fee, fine, or permit upon the ownership, possession, or operations of any weapon.
3. Require every adult citizen not excluded by virtue of violent felony convictions or mental incapacity to own, maintain and practice with at least one small arm compatable with the ammunition in use by the US Military. Ammunition will be provided at training facilities set up for such a purpose, and every citizen is eligable for one such weapon provided from the military arsenal.
4. People under clause 3 are the disorganized militia.
the disorganized militia
*cue training range montage with Yakety-Sax playing*
Nope. I have a negative reaction to anything you tell me I have to do.
He is an example of Top Man.
For technical subjects and things that he actually chooses to study he makes rational arguments. For other things he shoots his mouth office and assumes he is correct because he is smart about stuff he studied.
So like an engineer. 😉
Guilty.
By now I figured most libertarians would have figured out that you never will agree with anyone 100% of the time or on 100% of subjects, but that you pick your allies based on lesser criteria. And as for Musk’s comments, I point out that Musk came from a culture that severely restricted the ownership of firearms and that losing that mindset isn’t something easy. I remind most of you that bad orange man was a New York City resident that also supported gun control back when, but he leurned better. Elon Musk can be educated too, but you will not have the chance do that if you just tell him his views are wrong (even though they are). A discussion to educate is to be had…
Has anyone asked him about the right to bear tires and gasoline?
They make tires out of bears?
No, but they can make necklaces out of tires
Winnie, is that you?
I have no white quip here.
It’s no time to lose one’s head.
Really though, it doesn’t take a guillotine-sharp wit to realize that fooling around with another man’s wife is a bad idea.
A pretty good run for getting married at 18.
In a nod to Japan’s history if one is fired from a job “you become the neck”. Meaning you’ve become just a neck because you lost your head.
首になる。
kubi ni naru.
Yeah, more signs the copsucker contingent is starting to crumble.
Democratic secretary of state candidates haggle over who faces the most ethical questions
You are all just awful.
The one with the worst ethics wins of course.
“Ooooooooooooooooooooof course not. Why would we expect charges? These cocksuckers are above the law.”
At this point, after revelation after revelation of how inept the bureaucratic machine is, one is left wondering if this is beyond just ineptitude into maliciousness. more importantly, one would wonder why anyone would trust or take our legal system and the plethora of corrupt 3 letter entities involved with it seriously. Real criminals, always connected and part of a particular group peddling globalism and socialism, all so they can go back to a hereditary aristocracy where their moron kids retain the power regardless of how stupid and bad they are in a two class system (the rest of us will be serfs living at the mercy of our upper class), always seem to get away with criminal activities. Their enemies get the book thrown on them, always we seem to discover later under false pretenses or in a process rife with abuse and outright lying. Lady justice is held hostage in the basement of the power-hungry evil socialist global movement, with a gimp ball in her mouth, and a drum of lube on the side for the gang rape.
it was the biggest law enforcement failure since the last time the cowards stood outside a school while some maniac went around murdering kids. SOP at this point
Do anti-gun people really have to 100% wrong all the time?
The AR-15, the military-style rifle that a gunman used to kill 17 people at a South Florida high school Wednesday, is at once a ferociously powerful weapon, a symbol of freedom and individualism, and an object of despairing worry about the future of democracy.
It is, depending on which political and social camp you belong to, “America’s rifle,” a way to “Control Your Destiny” or a killing machine that has no legitimate place in civilian life.
Everything you said is bullshit.
Yeah, but they count on the lemmings that are swayed by fear porn being dumb enough that the lies will whip them into a frenzy and allow the people hell bent on disarming the population to then get their way.
Eh, it is “America’s Rifle,” according to the NRA and various competitions/celebrations.
I thought it was Nazi Germany’s rifle or such.
Armalite was an founded in Hollywood, California.
Lol.
I call it “America’s Rifle” because it is. And it is nice for these cuntes to finally admit that such rifles are 1940s and 1950s technology.
Wait until they find out that they’re both also “related to” the German StG 44 used by Nazis!
Not related … https://twitter.com/mffisher/status/1529786986181054464
Damn your nimble fingers.
Marc Fisher of WaPo, is that you?
If I were to try to write a caricature of ignominious displays of triumphant progressive ignorance, I would be unable to match the real thing.
Ignorance is strength. Facts disrupt the narrative.
I’d like to know who the fuck accepted those badges and did not run toward the situation. That is completely unfathomable to me. I’m no hero but I’ve done my bit before. You don’t think, You act. Shame on them if this turns out true. How would you sleep at night?
After 3 years of cries to “Defund the police” and constant Monday morning quarterbacking them – often enough with justification – I am not surprised this is how they behave. We live in an age and society where you are going to be made to pay for doing the right thing. Gone are the days where doing the right thing gave you a free pass. Now the expectation is perfection or else.
How often have you seen good Samaritans in trouble for helping and now being the target of some litigious asshat? I am a fully qualified First Aid certified guy, but I tell you that unless it is a family member or a loved one that is in need of help I am going to think real hard before rendering help because I know that despite the fact I carry insurance, I could still face worse (like jail time) because people expect perfection (even if there was no way to deliver that).
After 3 years of cries to “Defund the police” and constant Monday morning quarterbacking them – often enough with justification – I am not surprised this is how they behave.
Bullshit. This is how many/most responded to all mass shooting incidents prior as well.
Evidence?
Parkland:
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2021/10/17/ex-deputy-please-dont-blame-me-for-parkland-school-deaths/
Five minutes to enter Sandy Hook, even after shots were still being fired after their arrival:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/841589-sandy-hook-final-report#document/p15/a133713
Five minutes I can live with. It takes that long just to pull out the long guns and come up with a crude movement plan (“Amy and Basil take the left sector, Clara and Desmond take the right, Edward is rear security…”)
State police entered 25 seconds after arrival.
Marjorie Stoneman.
Columbine.
Kurt Schlichter sums it up pretty well:
TELL US THE TRUTH
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
Am I missing something because I’m not signing in, or is that an extremely short “editorial?”
It is mostly paywalled. Townhall has their “VIP” section where they try to keep the juicer opinion pieces.
Narrator: The people who slack at home are same people who slack at the office. The rest of us aren’t slacking – in fact, many of us are more productive now than ever.
^^^THIS^^^
My productivity at home is more than double of that in the office because at home it is far harder for the slackers to distract me like they do in the office… My company is trying hard to go back to a 3 days in-office, 2 days home model, but the logistics, fear of Kung Flu repercussion when a resurgence is happening of cases (non fatal), and some other extraneous items have kind of torpedoed the thing. But the one thing that is clear is that during the weeks where I have gone in 3 days, my productivity for those days has dropped to 50% (and I have made it clear I will not do extra work at home to catch up), and I am not alone in experiencing that. The slackers remain as non-productive in as out of the office, and they tend to mostly be the non-technical types.
Yeah — left out of this trend especially for the Silicon Valley companies is that the trend for several years before the COVID-work-from-home was “Open Office” where “being in the office” meant you got to tote your laptop to a communal table, surrounded by the sales guys who have to be on the phone all day (that is their job after all). For the software side of things, anything that promotes being able to think is a net benefit to productivity. Want people back in the office? Move back to high walled cubes at a minimum, small offices preferably. Since that’s not going to happen — I think most of the companies are wise enough to stick with allowing remote work and just looking at if the goddamn job is getting done instead of insisting everyone be at their nice little tables.
Or in other words — yeah, I disagree with Elon on this one.
Yup, companies have to be seeing the increased productivity – otherwise they’d be pushing harder for “back to the office”.
All’s I know is you can either have me at my desk at home working at 8am or stuck in a subway car at 8am cuz I am NOT getting up an hour and a half earlier to satisfy some happy horseshit about “togetherness” that doesn’t apply at all in my case.
We just had a “workplace experience” survey come out after a few weeks of expectation to come back in office at some cadence. I let them have it. I’ll happily go back to working in the office… if they adjust my productivity expectations down by half. At home, when my kids start distracting me, I can shut my door or tell them to play on the other side of the house. Mostly they’ve been trained to stay away from my office while working, and to not bother me when my door is shut.
At work, I have to choose a desk at random, plug into some shit monitors and a shit keyboard (at least I can bring my own mouse), and deal with sales and legal being distracting all around me. And that’s when everybody isn’t taking advantage of me being there to get me to fix their computers or their reports or whatever. Either they need to give me an office with a door or they need to deal with the reduced productivity, because I’m not working more hours to make up for it.
I can’t even with that.
That is like how you treat a visitor to the office, not an employee.
They told us that unless you choose to be someone working 5 days a week in office, you were basically a visitor…
Yeah — I get IT and corporate assets to some extent, but I’m of the “cheap out on hardware on me, and I’ll just damned well dedicate my own” in my home office. Dual 32″ 4k monitors. Check. Decent keyboard / mouse. Check. Stick me with just a Windows laptop with your crappy corp IT image? Fine — I’ll just set up a Linux workstation with hardware specs that meet my needs and tunnel through the laptop. (This is one of the things that drives me nuts — I’m a bloody kernel engineer, working on supporting the product in virtual machines / cloud — you don’t bloody think that being able to run arbitrary hypervisors and local VMs might be gorram useful??! Oh no… make me have to ssh to some server 2000 miles away just to test a kernel build… *that’s* productive….).
If they just offered even partial reimbursements and a corp Linux image that wasn’t so locked down to be unusable (like they keep trying to make the Windows one) I’d be willing to bet the engineers in this part of the company would snap it up.
We can’t have unsecure images running around. We could be compromised.
/ISO
WFH > door > cubicle > open > hoteling > hot desk
I’ve worked in all but hoteling, which is what corporate is pushing toward. Hoteling/hot desks are fine for employees that rarely come to the site. They suck if you are a regular.
no no no no no no no no no
Cubes are bad enough. I was close to snapping when I had a cube in a high traffic area. I will not have an open plan, and I WILL have a spot that other people can’t invade.
Back in my days as a lowly NCO in a joint office I enjoyed watching the fights among the DOD civilians over who got the door offices vs the large cubes. As an NCO I knew I would get crumbs. At least I got to pick my seat out of the 4 assigned to my team. I even got a window seat a couple times. Contracting in government space was the same. Corporate space changed a bit to where everyone was fighting for the low traffic, nobody can see what I am doing desks. Now I don’t have a desk.
Agreed. I do more now than ever.
I call bs. People who slack in the office have peer pressure. People at home not so much. My industry has used an apprenticeship model to train newbie’s and allow 2-5 yr people to learn to manage and train people. Since 2020, that shit has gone out the window, turnover is sky high, the staff development is much slower and I get to pick up the slack. The days of everyone being afraid to leave until the boss leaves are over, and the boss is now paying the price. A good old fashioned recession will get people to quit taking their jobs for granted or quitting because they had to work a weekend to make a deadline.
Slackers have a way of making it look like they aren’t slacking, they take credit for others’ work without repercussion, and they can speak corporatese.
My comments don’t apply universally, sure.
My business isn’t built around that model. We are all over the world already.
Seems legit.
In fresh proof of the lunacy of the United Nations, North Korea will chair its world disarmament forum for four weeks starting May 30.
Yes, the world’s foremost weapons proliferator will preside over the 65-nation World Disarmament Conference, most famous for producing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty back in 1968.
North Korea is in constant violation of nine separate UN orders thanks to its continued nuclear and ballistic-missile programs. It has launched six ballistic missiles in four weapons tests this month, and the country openly sells its missile and atomic blueprints to any comer.
‘Companies that are inherently negative cash flow (ie. value destroyers) need to die, so that they stop consuming resources,’ he continued.
He’s not wrong.
Waffle time!
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The Green New Deal-backing politician told Bloomberg in an interview Wednesday that she wants to switch to an electronic car that is made domestically by unionized workers.
Of course she does.
She can trade in her unicorn as part of the deal.
Maybe David Hogg can start a company to build those.
Totally impartial not part of the Deep State Youtube has removed the Victoria Nuland tape
But the government can give him one and send him off to some godforsaken shithole to kill or be killed on behalf of the government.
A CBS reporter asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during the daily briefing if Biden would support raising the age required to legally purchase a gun.
“The president was very clear about this just recently when he said in his remarks just on Tuesday that it doesn’t make sense for an 18-year-old to legally buy an assault weapon,” Jean-Pierre replied.
Either the age of majority is 18 or it isn’t. Make up your damned minds.
You can enlist at 18 but can’t train with a weapon for 3 years.
We can go the Bundeswehr route and have them yell “Bang! Bang!”
You’re dead.
Na ah. You missed.
You can enlist at 17. I did. I was also a unit armorer with unaccompanied access to M60s, M16s, M1911s, and thousands of rounds of ammunition at 20.
So, I’m flying to London at the moment and the apartment host there cancelled my reservation (thru Vrbo) an hour ago. It was for 9 days. I even packed less clothes because the place had a washer/drier.
Russian boycott.
Kidding aside, that sucks. Hope you have good luck finding a new place and it doesn’t wreck the trip.
The BA internet is kind of slow. It’s hard to search for hotels.
Are you going to be stuck in London, or will you be able to see the country?
Also, is it possible to get in and out of there without having been jabbed? I’ve regretted not seeing more of the country when I was last there.
I have day trips planned to Brighton, Stonehenge/Salisbury and Bath. There are no covid restrictions right now in England: no jabs, no masks, no tests.
I should renew my passport. After I get my house, car, and roof paid off (all in the near future) I might be able to afford to take a trip, see some of the old sites, then come back and hunt down US states I haven’t been to yet.
I hope you have a nice trip, and that this cancellation doesn’t bode ill.
Article with photos, please!
Seconded.
It’s been a long time but I really liked Bath – much more than London. Even went to some ancient pub way out in the boonies in that area. It was a blast.
I always look for a place out in the country instead of the city.
I booked a Hilton with an executive lounge. It won’t be necessary to shop at Tesco and cook our own breakfast. I had to use a VPN as if I were in Boston, the Hilton site didn’t want to book anything from the air.
Tonight is my last night in the hospital. I have a pedometer and my improvement through the week is steady. Like mathematically steady and I am quite proud of it.
I have gone Full Enjoyment mode. Had three Smokes today, my first in a week. I’ve never had any cravings in my ~15 years of (never super heavy) smoking. Just something I enjoy. I am on my third Coke and I have eaten a SHIT LOAD of candy. Pretty much constantly. Just set up my next charcuterie of it all.
Biggest challenge is that I’ll likely have to head to the hotel solo tomorrow. No real biggie. Just a backpack with my crutches. I know where I’m going and how to tell the taxi driver. Hardest part will be getting into the hotel, but I’ve stayed there and I am not really too concerned. Me Time is needed and deserved.
This week I have two government agencies to go to and I’m not worried about them, other than the hassle, but daily missions/goals are good to have. During the week I’ll be with Lady, most likely. A week or so to do those and to recuperate further. Then, it’s time to bounce.
Don’t worry. I am not in any trouble here. Just boxes to check and then getting to the airport. Flight will be fancy. I’ll miss this city, but mostly the people. Especially Lady. I imagine I won’t see these folk again. Next adventure is thrilling and confusing. Fish out of water….in the ocean he was raised. Should be curious.
Sorry for OT. The journey continues. I do have strange ones. As a whole, they’re worth making a book out of. When I am stable, that will hopefully be something I finally put my mind to and tackle.
Yikes I didn’t mean to make that that long. Damn typing on a phone I can’t tell.
I’ve seen longer.
Glad to know things are looking up.
Look at the size queen over here!
Sigh. That’s what they all say. They really want to rile me up so they can receive the ravishing passion that only I can provide.
I do not disappoint.
Just get home safe, Evan. That is all we ask of you.
Agreed.
Heal up. When you get home you are going to have to chase the suitors away from Penelope.
A Twitter exchange with Cernovich and Schlichter I absolutely agree with.
In that kind of circumstance, cops absolutely have to charge the assailant and they should get absolute immunity for what happens in the heat of those moments.
It will probably never happen in the careers of 99.9% of cops but accepting that it might should be a prerequisite for the job. Like a lot of the guys here I’m former military and had to accept that I might be required to obey an order that would mean certain death. Never happened obviously, but the possibility goes with the job.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-medal-of-honor-cashe-celiz-plumlee/
When I was a tad, nearly everyone’s Dad had a rifle and a shotgun in the bedroom closet. They weren’t locked away but you just knew not to fuck with them. I traded some vinyl for my first rifle. I can guarantee that all of those Enfields have not been traded in for brownie points.
My dad told me that when he was a young buck that if you perused the vehicles in the school parking lot you would find that everyone, including the teachers, had a rifle and/or a shotgun on the rack in their car or truck. Nobody ever thought about shooting the school or someone they got mad at at school, up. People understood community and had resiliency. Most importantly, people understood the responsibility of owning a firearm and of proving that they were ready for adulthood.
I suspect that the educations system being coopted by people peddling victimhood, the infantilization of society at large, and the massive social media culture and its degeneration, have all combined to cause some serious mental damage to the fragile kids, which now drives these broken people to do horrific shit like this, as they lash out at society for fucking them up.
Yes, all the trucks had gun racks with guns. In shop, one of the projects was to make a gun rack. Most boys carried buck knives and skoal cans in school. Nothing unusual about it.
You’ve stated in several posts about how the culture or society is the problem, but that’s a red herring to the actual problem. Do you really think that mass killings are a modern phenomena that suddenly popped into place over the past few decades? There have always been mass killers and there will always be mass killers. The highest mass killing of children in a school in the United States took place at a school in the 1920s. People have killed each left and right throughout human history whenever they were mad at the other. Society even had formalized rules for this in the form of dueling. In other countries with different cultures and restricted firearm access, there are mass killings of kids with knives.
You will never stop mass killings and will never prevent mass killings. Mass killers exist in every society and culture. You can however reduce the casualties by stopping the mass killer as quickly as possible. The fundamental problem over mass shootings in our current era isn’t society or culture. It’s not allowing adult citizens to arm themselves in school. That would quickly end the threat. For this specific instance, the cops were wrong for not engaging immediately. That’s standard protocol for mass shooters.
Also toasters kill 20x as many people as school shooters. Media is a big factor and the disturbing nature of the individual event.
How on earth have I not heard about these attacks by Cylons?
Tricia Helfer can attack me anytime.
“You’ve stated in several posts about how the culture or society is the problem, but that’s a red herring to the actual problem. Do you really think that mass killings are a modern phenomena that suddenly popped into place over the past few decades? There have always been mass killers and there will always be mass killers.”
No I do not. I think broken/evil people have been with us forever. I do however see a lot more of these broken/evil people these days because of social media’s ability to share, which as I pointed out, is one of the things that encourages them to kill others instead of just committing suicide.
“You will never stop mass killings and will never prevent mass killings.”
Agree with you 100%. But you will not be able to do anything effective, or worse, will do far more damage, if in your attempts to tackle the issue – and I hope we agree that despite the fact that we can’t prevent this, we should do what we can, within limits, to mitigate and reduce the incidence rate – based on incorrect or false rationalization of the problem. Nobody can fix a problem they misdiagnose the reasons for. The people wanting to grab guns, for whatever reason, are doing it wrong. Just like the people wasting time talking about what the police should or should not have done.
I hope we agree that despite the fact that we can’t prevent this, we should do what we can, within limits, to mitigate and reduce the incidence rate – based on incorrect or false rationalization of the problem.
See here’s where I disagree. You will never be able to meaningfully reduce the incidence rate. Not and have any resemblance of a free society. Free societies come with danger and risk.
You can meaningfully reduce casualties in each occurrence. That is why it is important to discuss what the police should have done. And other solutions like letting adults arm themselves in schools. And we should always be talking about what police should not have done to their fellow citizens. That is never a waste of time in a free society.
Well, I guess it is possible that a rapid response that reduces the body count might possibly reduce the incidence rate of mass shootings if a shooter knew he wouldn’t be able to get a high body count because he would be killed within 2 minutes of the first shot. But maybe not. Certainly suicide, murder of direct targets (instead of mass killings), or switching to a more effective method of mass killing (like fire, explosives) are all possibilities.
You can have a free society and the people properly educated to asses risk, but that’s not where we are today. That needs to be corrected. That’s what I am talking about. What we have today is neither freedom or a well educated society. We have a bunch of people that have never become adults with all sorts of ill informed beliefs. And responses will always be subjective and more likely than not, late. The one thing we can do to preempt the problem is accept the fact we have a whole lot of broken people because of the low quality of preparation they have to be adults, and deal with that. Everything else is noise.
My father gave me my first rifle and shotgun at 7. I wasn’t allowed to keep them in my room until I was a teenager.
Years later when I was home for college, we had one of our big family gatherings. My cousin’s kids found my rifles in my closet. My cousin got angry and demanded to know what kind of irresponsible person leaves unsecured firearms in their closet. I got angry demanding to know what kind of irresponsible parent doesn’t teach their kids not to go into people’s bedrooms without permission. The ammunition was all locked up in a safe.
The police have made it clear through the years and through the courts that they are not here to protect us but to investigate crimes. This outcome, while incredibly maddening, doesn’t surprise me one bit. The important thing to them is they all made it home.
If there is a Civil War 2, the regime might fold like a cheap suit with these kinds of defenders.
Nah, threaten their pensions and they’ll fight like the Germans in the last days of WWII.
So, racist, sexist, and fascist.Fire their panzerfaust into the air above a tank so they could say they did their duty, then go home?
Wow, two comments meant for two different replies ended up as one.
I should have actually hit ‘post comment’ for the first one.
In college a lot of our professors were from the middle east/Asia. One was from Pakistan, and his apartment was broken into. I remember him telling the story, and wondering what use the police were. The officer just comes in, takes some notes, and leaves, and you never see your stuff again.
Yep, that’s pretty much it. Welcome to America.
They seem to have assumed the role of claims adjuster for property insurers. You need that police report to get your stolen stuff paid for, and that’s all it does.
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That’s been my experience with them. They don’t do jack shit.
Probably not a bad idea to stock up on nonperishable essentials now
He then returned to Deep 13 to look for yet another Hercules movie to inflict upon the unsuspecting world.
U.S. spring #wheat planting is advancing at the slowest pace in more than 20 years
Is this weather-related, or something else?
Up here in spring wheat country we had a huge blizzard in April that hammered all of North and South Dakota and northern Minnesoda that delayed the spring thaw, and then most of May was rainy and cold. The weather seems to have turned warmer and drier now, so I don’t think the farmers will have too much trouble getting the wheat in. I’m no expert, but I would guess that the late planting window would lead to more wheat than normal because it has the shortest time to maturity of all the crops grown in the region.
Yup. A not-insignificant number of farmers switched from row crops to wheat due to the late planting season.
I feel like I’ve heard this story before. Oh, right.
Major Russian breakthrough at POPASNA
Good analysis. Subscribed.
“Luckily” for our media, they a big distraction and a holiday weekend as an excuse to ignore it.
Is this weather-related, or something else?
This lady, apparently an agriculture reporter who made the graph in the original post, seems to indicate it’s rainfall. Although she did also say elsewhere that planting is more expensive this year (maybe due to fertilizer inputs?).
I’m buying a few months supply of dry noodles, rice, oats, flour, just in case.
I don’t have my garden in all the way yet, and that’s due to weather. It’s been cool and rainy the last few weeks.
“”Did I sleep with Madonna? We didn’t do any sleeping,””
Not only a star, he has a rapist’s wit. No wonder the ladies loved him.
A rapier wit? Or a rapist’s wit?
Based on the global outbreak of monkeypox….an ape-ist.
I can’t stop laughing at “The Grapist” from yesterday’s posts:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mqgiEQXGetI
Kneejerk do-something-ism
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema quickly ruled out weakening the filibuster to pass gun safety legislation. Now it’s up to their Republican colleagues to prove to the centrist pair that there’s any middle ground.
The West Virginia and Arizona Democrats’ dismissal of a partisan approach, along with Sen. Chris Murphy’s (D-Conn.) lobbying against a failed vote on Democrats-only legislation, has forced Republicans to the table on guns. Whether it’s enough for the GOP to agree to even the most modest response to the murder of 19 children and two teachers in Texas is another question altogether.
This calls for a stupid and pointless pretend solution. Why won’t those damn Republicans get on board?
the most modest response
The most modest thing I can think of is to make schools hard targets as opposed to soft ones. IOW protect kids the same way we protect banks and politicians.
pointless pretend solution.
The point is disarming the population and there is no limit to the amount of bodies that anti-gunners will use as a soap box to advocate for that end.
I’m telling you, the things the politicians are learning from this is that the police won’t even protect the high holy class.
“We’ve been calling them dangerous insurrectionists for a year and a half, and we thwarted their President at every turn, but now it’s their job to enact our agenda for us, and if they won’t then they’re just worthless”
Either the age of majority is 18 or it isn’t. Make up your damned minds.
I am fully on board with tying the voting age to the gun buying age. 21, 25, 40, to own a gun? That’s when you get the vote.
I think phased-in majority is better than a sudden flipping of the switch from none to all. However, the point of the phasing-in should be to introduce minors to danger and responsibility at the earliest reasonable age, not to keep them away from danger until the latest politically feasible age as is the case today.
You can have my vote. It ain’t worth shit anyway.
Gunz, though, I want to see belt fed machine guns in vending machines.
/I’m a little feisty this morning
Gas prices high? Just steal oil from an unfriendly nation
JFC.
Wars are fought over this shit.
Yes – That’s somewhere between an act of piracy and an act of war.
Well if piracy then I seem to recall international law allowing immediate capital punishment against the pirates.
Great goodness, that’s sleazy on our part.
WTF
Now we’re just Somali pirates.
How is this not straight out piracy?
I’m a little curious about how they transferred the oil. Did US Navy personnel do it themselves? Did they coerce or force the crews to do it? Did they use pumps on board one of the tankers?
Obviously, the Navy has people skilled in refueling at sea and fuel transfer between ships, but are they doing the actual confiscation themselves? Was it a Coast Guard Unit? Do they have contractors that do this for them?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Awww… They are so articulate, clean and neat! Nice one, Holiness!
*immediately books a flight to Amsterdam. Those Dutch girls are hawt!*
Especially the ones that don’t shave their legs and underarms?
I don’t mind hairy pits or legs.
So long as she showers? Don’t care. I’m a 70’s boy. Bush don’t bother me much.
I don’t mind a bush (well, a maintained lawn, cause I am not into weed whacking) either Festus & pistoffnick, but I draw the line at fucking a human imitating a furry monkey… are you guys not aware of the latest pandemic problem with all the monkey fucking?
Mercury is a real nice car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbdCj7gaBuQ
“I like a big bush.”
Some of us sickos find that to be a plus.
*raises hand*
Those Dutch girls are hawt!
and tall
Tallest people on Earth and still grateful regarding Canadians. Margritte in Mexico would concur.
Toe to toe, your nose is in it.
Nose to nose, your toes are in it.
Funny!
Haha, My empty beer can collection has reached the point wherein it is no longer a mountain range but instead a volcanic event. I really need to re-assess my life. I need help. Fuck me deadly!
Trouble in Paradise
Many voters in heavily Democratic Los Angeles are seething over rising crime and homelessness and that could prompt the city to take a turn to the political right for the first time in decades.
One of the leading candidates for mayor is Rick Caruso, a pro-business billionaire Republican-turned-Democrat who sits on the board of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and is promising to expand spending on police, not defund them.
At another time, the high-end mall and resort developer would seem an unlikely choice to potentially lead the nation’s second-most populous city, where democratic socialist Bernie Sanders was the runaway winner in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. A progressive City Hall has embraced so-called sanctuary city protections for people who entered the U.S. illegally and “Green New Deal” climate policies.
But these are fraught times in LA, with more than 40,000 people living in trash-strewn homeless encampments and rusty RVs, distress over brazen smash-and-grab robberies and home invasions while inflation and taxes are gouging wallets — gas in a region built on car travel has cracked $6 a gallon. Rents and home prices have soared.
Caruso is spending millions of his estimated $4.3 billion fortune to finance a seemingly nonstop display of TV and online ads to tap into voter angst. At issue is whether enough people will embrace his plans to add 1,500 police officers and promises to get unhoused people off the streets, while not recoiling from his vast wealth.
People are finally getting fed up with Progressivist make believe?
Looking at NYC, their idea of a “turn to the right” is to replace a Bolshevik with a “center-left” candidate, i.e. what would be a mainstream Democrat anywhere outside the city limits.
If only. They’re still believers. Cognitive dissonance allows them to divorce the clear effects of those beliefs, though. If they aren’t already justifying them as the result of not progging hard enough and the evil Rethugglicans running the city and state.
I still think the majority aren’t buying the “green” horseshit or much of the rest of the left’s agenda, but they vote Dem because free shit and because inertia – and if that comes with all the rest of that baggage so be it. Until the baggage becomes unbearable like now.
You are supposed to wear the cape with the collar AFTER you take control. This is where Klause fucked up.
It never lasts. I moved to LA right after the 92 riots. People got fed up and elected Republican Richard Reardon as Mayor. He did a great job for 2 terms – like Giuliani – and they’ve had Democrats making things worse ever since.
Stupid people never learn the lesson that it is their stupid choices that cause the problems. When shit gets real bad they may temporarily get sane and decide they need to stop the stupid skid, but as soon as the problems are dealt with the idiots go right back to the same old prescriptions to fight meaningless and stupid first world problems.
The (moderately) intelligent are more trainable than the genuinely stupid.
People are finally getting fed up with Progressivist make believe?
If there is a Republican/Conservative/otherwise right-wing person within the city limits the inevitable negative results of leftist policies are their fault. It is known.
Ewwwww, vast wealth! Yuck.
To pointlessly speculate on a less serious topic, why is NPR hyping the new Top Gun? They’ve done multiple segments on it over he past few days, and Eric Deggans, who’s reviews usually only consist of “not enough diversity,” says it’s better than the original.
They have been paid to say this?
Sounds like it might have splurged on being ‘diverse’, or paid off the shills.
NPR enjoys their militaristic shitfest as much as any right winger. Who’s the enemy in this one? Is it the Russians?
I’m gonna guess white supremacist ultramagaite deplorable insurrectionists.
Unnamed uranium enrichment program defended by Russian-made fighters….
Seems tailor-made for our current propaganda environment.
The vulnerable facility at the end of a defended trench sounds like a rehash of Star Wars. Is Porkins in this one?
Trust your feelings Maverick.
More like a rehash of Iron Eagle 2.
That sounds surprisingly not totally gay.
The facility is located within a steep depression at the end of a mountainous canyon and defended by surface-to-air missile (SAM) batteries
So… the Death Star trench run?
*sigh*
I’m waiting for the reveal of the TIE Drones and the last-minute intervention by a cargo plane.
I’ve heard some good things about the movie. One from a former F-14 pilot. He said see it in IMAX for the best experience.
This coming Sunday date night for me and Mr. Mojeaux.
That’s setting the bar pretty low.
So, one aspect of the whole shooting debacle I have not heard anyone discuss is the fact that this kid, which we now are told was bullied for being poor, spent some $3K or more on firearms & ammo. Whycome we have not heard how he was able to do this other than he was working at Wendy’s? I know that fast food places had to pay a lot more to get people to work, but this guy doesn’t strike me as either a reliable employee or a hardworking one. So what happened? someone gave him ac= credit card with a limit over $5k? or was this nutbag a financial wizard?
Ah, the old “he was bullied” card. Bullshit every time since Columbine, but let’s whip it out once more for fun.
The thing is, just about everyone gets bullied at some point to some degree or another. Not a legit excuse, not that one exists, at all.
“Words are violence”
Said only by people that have never experienced real violence…
I was bullied pretty unmercifully in elementary school. I even got whipped with horse reins when I was 9 or so. Then I grew. Nobody fucked with me ever again.
Well they can’t claim he was a white supremacist, so he had to be some kind of victim.
Credit card?
Can the credit card company garnish his commisary account?
More likely he used his grandmother’s credit card, and since she survives, she’ll be on the hook for paying the bill.
It’s not that hard to pile up some cash working a fast food job if all of your other bills are paid by someone else. I saved up a couple grand over a summer working in a fast food kitchen back when the minimum wage was $3.25 an hour.
A looming question in LA is who will show up. About 80% of voters didn’t cast ballots when outgoing Mayor Eric Garcetti was reelected in 2017.
There is a deep dismay with government across L.A. A major challenge for Caruso, Bass and other rivals — including city Councilman Kevin de Leon, a former Democratic leader in the state Senate — will be convincing voters change is possible.
Muh DEMOCRACY!
Obviously, it should be illegal to not vote (for a Democrat).
Neither rain nor snow nor dark of night will stop Friday Funbags from bouncing onto the scene.
https://archive.ph/s6euZ
Now I know we are doomed…
Either that or people are getting tired of paying seven bucks for a Budweiser.
Can’t you make up for that by using the whole “Al Bundy” dollar on a sting tip fake?
A case in point: Gas station owner Wignesh Kandavel. He says his complaints have gone unheard for years about homeless people setting up campsites around a freeway overpass just steps from his pumps and convenience market.
Sagging tents and trash are cleared from time to time, only to have homeless people return again. He says drug use is rampant, shoplifting a constant problem and panhandling at the freeway exits a daily routine.
The Nigerian immigrant and registered Republican who came to the U.S. in search of a better life has lost interest in the election and doesn’t see any candidate as credible.
“The whole system is gone,” Kandavel said.
What does he know?
The Nigerian immigrant and registered Republican who came to the U.S. in search of a better life has lost interest in the election and doesn’t see any candidate as credible.
You can’t scam me – that’s whiteness through and through.
I like this Miyares fellow.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) has filed a brief in support of a West Point, Virginia, teacher who was fired for refusing to use the preferred pronoun of a transgender student.
Miyares’s brief begins, quoting case law:
GAY
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/18672352/my-partner-cheated-on-me-with-a-man-but-he-insists-hes-not-gay/
Green Marxians have a sad.
The World Economic Forum and the globalist movement it helps lead have used the “climate crisis” and the COVID-19 pandemic as pretexts for measures to redistribute the wealth of nations.
But this week, as WEF convenes is annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, the Arctic sea ice expanse so far this month is at a 30-year high, according to data from intergovernmental European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, points out climate-change skeptic Tony Heller.
Cheney for Wyoming
It’s cute how this dishonest, sanctimonious twat thinks she has a chance at this point.
Good morning, Sloop!
Thanks as always for the beefy lynx!
Hockey has been really good. I’d like to see an Avs/Oilers semi, but SL is really goddamn good.
From that Bolt article:
It’s sentences like that that make me really happy I’m nowhere near that world any more. *barf*
RIP Fletch. Great song choices.
Spontaneous
Thousands of students staged walkouts at schools and college campuses across the country Thursday to demand stricter gun control in the wake of the Texas school massacre that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
Starting at noon ET, waves of students — some wearing orange, the color of the gun violence prevention movement — abandoned their classes and headed outside to protest, often accompanied by their teachers and cheered on by their parents.
Egged on by the drama queens of the teachers’ unions? There’s a surprise.
On the one hand they probably just want to get out of class for the day. On the other hand fuck you, read a history book, learn something about American government/civics and crime and otherwise shut the fuck up.
I’m sure students also want Santa Claus to bring them a pony. Since when do we base national policy on the tantrums of children?
I guess they need to hire Kid Rock because everyone else is a pussy.
Greenwood joined “American Pie” singer Don McLean, and country superstar Larry Gatlin in skipping the event, which has taken on heightened controversy as the shooting in an Uvalde school has reignited the debate about gun control.
“As a father, I join the rest of America in being absolutely heartbroken by the horrific event that transpired this week in Texas. I was scheduled to perform at NRA’s private event on Saturday with my band,” Greenwood said in a statement. “After careful consideration, we have decided to cancel the appearance out of respect for those mourning the loss of those innocent children and teachers in Uvalde.”
I hope his “God Bless the USA” royalties suddenly dry up. To think that was an anthem during my Gulf War time and Greenwood was considered to be such a patriot.
I never liked that crap song. Probably because it’s a favorite of Hannity.
I’ve always hated that song with a burning passion for some reason.
Jingoistic junk
Jeez, even the country singers. Talk about misreading the room.
They pulled the same shit and called for gun control after the Vegas shooting.
I have noticed the pattern that shootings tend to happen right before the NRA annual meeting every couple years. Not quite donning the tin foil yet, but it is a deja vu moment.
I’m still trying to figure out if the video of the cops threatening the parents with rifles and tasers occurred before or after their children’s executions.
If that video occurred after, I can buy the story of a few cops cowardly hiding while the shootings took place. Then these cops in the video were preventing the parents from interfering with the crime scene and the bodies. The cops were still wrong in how they handled the parents, but we can chalk the delay up to cowardice.
If that video occurred before though, I’m not buying that group of ten cops in body armor and rifles ready to shoot the parents were hiding from the gunman. They must have been under orders to not engage the gunman while at the same time to engage the parents as needed, including using lethal force. And following that train of thought down the path is going to require tinfoil.
I have a friend who is a social worker; he says that May is statistically the worst month for domestic abuse including child abuse, and that other crimes also rise during that time.
Many of these shooters seem to come from shitty backgrounds, possibly with abuse profiles, and perhaps some of them are set off by memories of past abuse or break in the aftermath of recent abuse.
Wow. That is worth doing researching.
And Don McLean canceled? That’s a good thing, they really dodged a bullet there.
As lucky as Waylon Jennings.
What irrational horseshit. The private NRA event has nothing to do with the school shooting. Now even country stars are virtue-signaling morons buying into dishonest leftist talking points.
Now?
” out of respect for those mourning the loss of those innocent children and teachers in Uvalde.”
Something more than Beto O’Rourke and numerous other pols standing on a pile of corpses have chosen to do.
Fuck Lee Greenwood and fuck the NRA’s suicidal boomer nostalgia trip twice.
The NRAAM is usually a pretty good time, but I cringed so hard when I saw that talentless hack in the lineup. I’m sure you could find a few bands that aren’t screechingly hoplophobic and have some attraction for the under-65 set…
I think part of Elon’s likability is his immigrant status. He seems to have an appreciation of what he’s been able to accomplish here, like many immigrants. I think part of his being all over the place is also his immigrant status. Maybe he’s still inured to the various socialisms he grew up with.
Maybe, but Jeff Bezos father was Cuban and WaPo is a commie rag.
So Bezos is native-US-born?
The nationwide protests were organized by a group called Students Demand Action, which is affiliated with the pro-gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety.
“Enough is enough,” the students group said on the internet “toolkit” it used to organize the nationwide protests. “Once again, gun violence has forced its way into our schools. … We need more than thoughts and prayers. We demand action from our lawmakers now.”
The student group noted on its website that gun violence was the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the U.S.
DEMOCRACY! in action. Deny the rights and freedom of others in a vain attempt to mitigate an infinitesimal risk.
Context is everything.
5 kids were killed in 2019 due to in school shootings. I’m sure many more died from car accidents after prom than from shootings each year.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-in-2019-how-many-and-where/2019/02
This takes nothing away from what the parents and fellow class mates feel, but feelings alone should not make policy.
Data since 2018.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-over-time-incidents-injuries-and-deaths
Interesting. I wish they had gone back a lot further than 2018.
I’m sure many more died from car accidents after prom than from shootings each year.
Yup. Not even close. By a factor of 37x.
https://www.gerberinjurylaw.com/blog/2020/august/prom-night-accidents/#:~:text=However%2C%20about%201%2C000%20youth%20under,Traffic%20Safety%20Administration%20(NHTSA).
Proms would be much safer if everyone would stop denying science and just wear masks.
The student group noted on its website that gun violence was the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the U.S.
Show your work.
DEMOCRACY! in action.
Clearly we need to lower the voting so that hyperemotional, hormonal children who don’t know anything (but enough about the average leftist) can have a say.
I’ll give them three guesses as to why deranged shooters might target a school.
1) It garners the most attention and outrage
2) It’s poorly defended
3) kids and teachers usually don’t fight back
4) columbine has taken on some sort of pseudo-religious tone to some fucked up corners of the internet
Cleveland Elementary in San Diego haz a sad (“I don’t like Mondays“).
I’m coming around to the idea of banning internet access for anyone under the age of 18. Past age 18, you must pass both a literacy test and computer literacy test.
That’s beyond cowardice, that’s getting into evil territory.
This is the second report I read on this, I didn’t link the first because I presumed it to be incredible.
Kneejerk do-something-ism, cont’d
Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bill designed to combat domestic terrorism from advancing in a key vote. The vote comes as lawmakers are under intense pressure to take action in the wake of multiple recent episodes of horrific gun violence.
The final tally of the vote was 47-47. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer changed his vote from an “aye” to a “no” at the end in a procedural move to be able to bring the bill back up again in the future if he wants.
The bill passed the Democratic-controlled House last week following a tragic mass shooting at a supermarket in a predominately Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. But Republicans have pushed back against the measure put forward by Democrats, describing it as partisan and unnecessary.
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The failure of the domestic terrorism bill in the Senate underscores yet again how challenging it is for lawmakers to enact any kind of major policy change in the wake of mass shootings amid a highly polarized political environment and widespread GOP opposition to stricter gun controls.
Our streets run red with blood. Right wing death squads hold the nation hostage, and still Republicans refuse to act!
Domestic terrorism? oh bullshit
Trust your feelings Maverick.
Be the ball, Danny.
Negative ghost rider.
Yousa can be muy muy wingman okey dey!
The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022 would set up offices specifically focused on domestic terrorism at the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the FBI.
The offices would track and analyze domestic terrorist activity with the goal of better preparing the federal government to identify risks in order to take preventative action.
The bill creates a requirement for biannual reporting on domestic terrorism threats. It also calls for assessments of the threat posed specifically by White supremacists and neo-Nazis.
That will put an end to insurrectionism and un-American activities, once and for all. They probably need a ministry to combat disinformation, to make it truly effective, though.
Who thinks all of these three-letter agencies aren’t already doing all of this, up to and including the little theater about “white supremacists”?
threat posed specifically by White supremacists and neo-Nazis
Which is virtually nonexistent. I look forward to the BLM/Antifa summer of peace and love.
Now playing.
For some reason I find Pharrell’s face incredibly punchable. Big Boi OTOH rules.
QFT.
Sleepy Brown is absolutely no slouch, either. LOVE his voice.
When I was taking my art class at the local juco, all my classmates were just-graduated-from-high-schoolers. They kinda liked me I think. Anyway, the teacher said, “Bring in music if you want.” She was older than me and didn’t really mean it because one of the kids tried and she said, “What is this shit?” LOL
I was sitting in a group of 3 others, and I made a playlist and gave them each a stick. That was when I realized I couldn’t plug a stick into an old boom box. So it never got played. But I put all sorts of shit on this playlist. That song, some mambo, some electroswing, some Northumberland lullaby (hi, GT!), some disco, and some Motley Crue, amongst other things. I don’t know what they thought of it, but it was fairly broad.
So I’m listening to that and it’s an awesome playlist.
I didn’t finish the class. I had surgery, I had to move, and my son created drama that would have made me miss too many classes. None of that I had anticipated before signing up. I regret dropping out, but I really couldn’t go to class for 2 weeks and that would have tanked my grade.
Question I have that I don’t know the answer to: What is the breakdown of school shootings by school type?
What is the school shooting rate in public schools vs charter schools vs private schools?
Obviously with way more public schools, they would have more instances. But do we have enough sample size to test statistical significance? I can’t really remember any cases occurring at a private or charter school, but assume it is non-zero.
That Amish one years ago was at a private school.
I knew there had to have been one, but I still think there is probably a statistically significant difference. But I would need someone with good numbers to calculate that for sure. Maybe there isn’t a differnece?
I don’t believe the shooter attended the school. He viewed it as an opportune location.
Ignoring covid numbers, 12% of students are in private schools, 3% in home schools, and charter is 7% of public students, meaning 7% of 85% or 6% of the total.
So that breaks down to 79% public, 12% private, 6% charter, and 3% home school.
So we would then need to break down incidents and deaths by type. I am pretty sure public is far overrepresented in both.
Which suggests that maybe the problem might be within the schools themselves.
See up post.
Here are the raw numbers.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-over-time-incidents-injuries-and-deaths
Thanks, may have to dig into it to see if I can find what I am looking for.
Whatever caused that large drop in 2020 should be brought back and made permanent.
Well, the past 3-year average is the same as that of the previous 2 years. And 2022 isn’t over yet.
/knows you were joking
Which suggests that maybe the problem might be within the schools themselves.
I don’t think within schools but rather that schools themselves are target rich environments. You will find mass shootings in other such environments that restrict guns, have limited mobility, and are filled with targets that have no means of effectively defending themselves.
You won’t be able to find causation comparing public schools and private/charter schools. Any difference there is more likely due to influences parental involvement and socioeconomic background than the type of school. But then you have adult shooters who target schools, which throws the whole thing out and goes back to the above point about these being target rich environments. Same with day camps (the Norway shooter), movie theaters, military bases that disarm the men, etc.
“But do we have enough sample size to test statistical significance?”
No.
Well, its not true, you can test for statistical significance on any sample size, it is just unlikely for anything to pass the NULL hypothesis.
OK, mathematically you could test, but school shootings are too rare to conclude anything about how the type of school might make a difference.
‘Are We Next?’: DC-Area Students Call for Action Against School Shootings
“We worried, we’re scared and we want change,” a student said.
Wear a mask.
More than 100 students out of about 2,300 is a higher percentage than the ~20 of ~2,000 for the pro-abortion walkout at the local school. My kids will also be walking out of school at about 1230 and refuse to return until August.
Ha ha ha. Good one.
DC students, 1000x more likely to be shot by gangmembers than by school shooter.
Weird coincidence in Uvalde. About 4 years ago, two students who were planning on shooting up their school were arrested. They would be about 18 now.
Same age as the shooter.
Ahead of the vote Thursday morning, Schumer called for the Senate to take up the House-passed bill, but acknowledged it was unlikely to advance amid GOP opposition.
“Today the Senate will have a chance to act on a pernicious issue that has recently become an increasingly prevalent component in America’s gun violence epidemic — the evil spread of white supremacy and domestic terrorism,” he said.
Serious people, doing serious things.
One more reason why I have begun to despise my alma mater.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkq-qbLhuPg
I’m okay with Feta cheese, I’ll eat it as part of a dish, but somehow I don’t think a Greek Salad is supposed to be 50% Feta by volume.
All salads should be 50% cheese by volume. The other 50% needs to be ham and hard-boiled eggs, divided equally.
What lettuce?
Dry? You need to reserve some space for dressing.
Dressing doesn’t count.
I would agree with most other cheeses but not feta.
For breakfast, I just ate a fresh naan (I like having an Indian place just down the street) wrapped around panko breaded shrimp, bacon, 3 types of olives, and a stupendous amount of feta. Multicultural AF. Good stuff.
Uh, clearly you haven’t been to Pittsburgh. Proper salads are, by weight, 50% steak, 20% french fries, 10% lettuce and other vegetables, 10% cheese, 5% hard boiled eggs, and 5% ranch dressing.
You are all missing the key ingredient that defines a salad: olives.
We can be friends.
Olives aren’t food.
Possibly, but they are still delicious.
Which is why the muffaletta may be the greatest american sandwich.
Black olives are a crime against humanity. Garlic stuffed green olives are proof that God exists and wants us to be happy.
I thought wine, beer, and Q’s offerings were the proof God wants us to be happy?
You’re right. And olives do appear in Pittsburgh salads, but I included them with veggies.
Olives marinated in vodka and dry vermouth make a nice salad.
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I wasnt sure if upper right was really a word.
You’re improving already!
Yeah, me neither. Same score as you, different words gave me problems.
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This family must have some great holiday dinners!
WFH ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
The agency’s inspector general found that two former agents likely provided “inaccurate or incomplete information” when investigators subsequently tried to understand what happened, but more would be needed to file charges, the department said.
I’m certain us normies would get the same consideration.
Two positive COVID tests. The wife and I aren’t going anywhere this holiday weekend.
Does that make you repeat offenders?
are you actually sick or you just tested positive?
Oh no! I’m sorry, especially if you had plans. Hope you’re asymptomatic or at least only mildly symptomatic. ?
Oops! Meant for kinnath.
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